Word: manor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...argument that religion and politics should never be brought up for discussion, it does seem as if at Harvard a university club could be formed that might organize a capital petty congress; with men from so many states there is material at hand to draw representatives "to the manor born" to sit for their own commonwealth, and who could and doubtless would gladly make an intelligent study of their own states, so as to prove valuable members, and the discussions would awaken an interest in the management of our form of government, with a knowledge of details in parliamentary meetings...
...objects very smartly because we say "to the manner born," instead of "to the manor born" (we suppose). "Such is culture," it says. The Era is, we fear, a little too previous. We do not care to discuss questions of Shakespearean text-interpretations in these columns, and we will only refer the Era to the discussions of the best critics on this matter, and it will see that we have plenty of justification (besides all common sense, etc.,) to sustain us in this reading...